Keeping It Real: Conversations with Jillian Michaels

Keeping It Real: Conversations with Jillian Michaels

Jillian Michaels is renowned for transforming lives. Her fearless honesty, passion, and extensive knowledge on health, fitness, and nutrition have made her America’s go to motivator and wellness expert for the past two decades. This new format features an impressive lineup of guests and broadens the conversation to tackle the tough topics which matter the most in helping us better understand ourselves and the world around us. Through in-depth discussions and short form content, Jillian brings valuable insights, inspiring life stories, and actionable advice from leading thinkers, innovators, and change makers in a variety of fields. Her guests aren’t just experts they’re pioneers who’ve reshaped their industries and the way we think. From medicine to mental health, groundbreaking science to current events, relationships to career she explores the frontiers of knowledge and personal development that changes lives. In an era where we’re inundated with conflicting information and compromised narratives, "Keeping It Real" stands out as trusted resource that informs, inspires, and empowers its audience. A forum where the power of dialogue and diverse perspectives reigns supreme and the information shared is actionable for everyone. Tune in, stay curious, and be fearless. Join Jillian and her guests on a journey of growth, comradery, and candor. Together, we can navigate the complexities of our time, break down barriers, and unlock the potential for a better tomorrow! PREVIOUS GUESTS HAVE INCLUDED: Lindsay Vonn. Tony Robbins. Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Suze Orman. Dr. Peter Attia. Lisa Ling. Gary Vee. And many more.

Episodes

December 31, 2025 71 mins
Start your 2026 transformation with the ultimate guide to Muscle-Centric Medicine®. In this episode, Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, NYT Bestselling author of Forever Strong, joins us to reveal the science-backed secrets of fat loss, metabolic health, and longevity. If you’ve struggled with stubborn weight or midlife health plateaus, this masterclass explains why muscle is the "organ of longevity" and how to optimize your biology using the la...
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Tom MacDonald wages war on a “Woke World” and risks it all in the process. The music industry wanted him silenced—instead, he became the biggest independent rapper in the world. From the depths of severe alcoholism and poverty to complete financial freedom, Tom breaks down the brutal cost of telling the truth in a world addicted to lies. He reveals how he dismantles the culture war by rejecting the trap of tribalism entirely—weapo...
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As America approaches a pivotal 2026, leadership matters now more than ever. With key issues like fair trade, strong borders, and economic independence all dominating the President’s agenda, attention has shifted to America’s national security as Trump looks to reshape U.S. relations with China, Ukraine, and the Middle East. In this all-encompassing conversation, Jillian Michaels and Sean Spicer dissect President Trump’s America F...
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Award-winning financial journalist Trish Regan breaks down what the headlines are getting wrong about the U.S. economy. From the latest jobs data to inflation, interest rates, gas prices, wages, AI job displacement, and the growing squeeze on the middle class—this conversation cuts through the spin and explains what the data really means for your money. We cover why wages “outpacing inflation” doesn’t feel real, how Federal Reserv...
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Former Navy Seal, Carl Higbie, host of Front Line on Newsmax, joins Jillian to discuss two tragedies, thousands of miles apart, that have shattered the holiday season. In Australia, a "Hanukkah by the Sea" celebration at Bondi Beach turned into a massacre, leaving 15 unalived in what the Prime Minister is calling a targeted act of antisemitic terrorism. Meanwhile, in the U.S., a mystery gunman remains at large after ki**ing two stu...
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Dr. Drew Pinsky goes scorched earth on what he calls California’s “Homelessness Industrial Complex” - He breaks down exactly how California has built a billion-dollar machine designed to profit from bureaucracy... all while keeping addicts sick, untreated, and abandoned on city sidewalks.  From corrupt NGO’s to dirty politicians and woke ideology - nothing is left unexposed. Then we get into the political brawl between Halle Berry ...
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Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, a well-regarded ENT specialist, became one of the most polarizing figures in American medicine after refusing to fall in line during COVID. When her off-label use of ivermectin went public, the backlash was immediate: her hospital suspended her, the medical board came after her, and she was thrust into a national firestorm. In this episode, she lays out the blueprint she says was used to punish dissenting p...
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In this episode, Jillian Michaels sits down with  @TomiLahren  — host of  @TomiLahrenIsFearless  and FOX News / FOX Nation commentator to break down Minnesota’s $1B Somali-run fraud scandal, political fear around scrutinizing nonprofits tied to Ilhan Omar’s orbit, national-security red flags involving overseas kickbacks and alleged Al-Shabab links, the fallout from Dearborn’s “Death to America” chants, Trump’s plan to review visas ...
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Ben Greenfield breaks down the most advanced longevity, anti-aging, and performance strategies of 2025.   We cover natural hormone optimization plus TRT/HRT, metabolic upgrades, weight-loss drugs, peptides, stem cells, gene therapy, and plasma exchange — along with science-backed protocols for today’s most popular “biohacks”: HBOT, red light therapy, cold plunge, sauna, glutathione patches, PEMF mats, and more.  If you want to bo...
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Donald Trump Jr. joins Jillian for an unfiltered brutally honest interview — tearing into the latest Thomas Crooks conspiracy, the unanswered questions the media won’t touch, and why he thinks the narrative is being manipulated.  Don Jr. weighs in on the Russia–Ukraine war, the escalating threat from Iran, Trump’s Gaza Peace Deal, and the real story behind the bombing of Venezuelan narco terrorist boats that insiders are whisperin...
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Former Navy SEAL and Newsmax primetime host Carl Higbie joins Jillian for a deep dive into some of the most explosive cultural and national-security issues unfolding right now.   Carl breaks down Texas’s decision to label CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations — a threat he says he flagged nearly a decade ago. Jillian and Carl then dig into the crisis unfolding in Dearborn, Michigan, where Sharia courts, non-as...
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Mike Baker joins Jillian today — former CIA covert ops officer, global intelligence insider, CEO of Portman Square Group, and host of the hit podcast The President’s Daily Brief. First up: Jeffrey Epstein. Was Epstein an intelligence asset? If so — for who… and for what? Was he running kompromat operations, collecting political leverage, or plugged into a covert intelligence network far bigger than anyone’s admitted? We break down ...
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Former law enforcement officer turned conservative pundit Brandon Tatum — aka “Officer Tatum” — joins Jillian to break down what the media won’t touch. Why are mobs attacking ICE, Border Patrol, and even the National Guard? Why are criminals being protected while law enforcement is demonized? And how did illegal immigration become a political weapon powerful enough to tear this country apart?  Tatum lays out the ways in which Biden...
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World-class historian and Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson joins Jillian for a masterclass on how crony capitalism, socialism, communism, and religion are intertwined — and why the stakes right now could not be higher.   A renowned classicist who has spent his life studying war, empires, and the rise and fall of civilizations takes us inside the mind of Karl Marx — who he was, what he believed, and how his theo...
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Jillian Michaels addresses the pressing issue of cowardice in American politics, arguing that the real problem isn't extremism but the lack of courage to confront it. She discusses how both Democrats and Republicans avoid holding their own extremists accountable, resulting in a more mainstream presence of fringe ideologies. Jillian also calls for responsible leadership, emphasizing the need to marginalize actual hatred and promote ...
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Bill O’Reilly joins Jillian to break down two massive stories. First: Was America forced through a fake shutdown — a staged crisis engineered for election optics? O’Reilly exposes how fear, headlines, and political theater were used to manipulate voters. Then, in a completely separate bombshell, O’Reilly lays out the real risks of Mamdani no one is talking about.  He explains why Mamdani’s ideology is far more extreme than anyone r...
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Jillian Michaels sits down with Glenn Beck for one of the most explosive political conversations of the year. Beck warns that Zoran Mamdani’s shocking win in New York City isn’t just a local upset—it’s a preview of what comes next as socialism sweeps major American cities. He breaks down how Soros-backed campaigns, color-coded revolutions, and Occupy Wall Street tactics quietly evolved into today’s political machine—replacing prose...
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Protests, riots, and coordinated campus takeovers… From “No Kings” to pro-Palestine encampments, Antifa, and BLM, America is watching chaos erupt in sync across major cities and universities. But who is paying for it - and why? Jillian Michaels sits down with investigative researcher and author of Controligarchs, Seamus Bruner at The Government Accountability Institute, to follow the money and expose the billionaire networks, dark...
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Subscribe to the YouTube channel: Jillian and Eric Bolling go straight for the jugular on the fallout from the Tucker Carlson–Nick Fuentes interview.  This has detonated inside the conservative movement, and they’re calling out the threat head-on: an alt-right fringe trying to hijack the party, poison the base, and hand victories to the Left on a silver platter. From there, they rip into what’s coming next: Virginia, New Jersey, Ma...
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Kelsi Sheren survived war — but what she experienced after coming home was far darker. In this episode, Kelsi exposes the horrifying reality of Canada’s MAiD program: a system offering euthanasia not just to veterans, but to the disabled, the mentally ill, those battling depression, and — in proposed expansions — even minors. Instead of offering treatment, care, or hope, the government is quietly offering death. She explains how a ...
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